[lug] vpn and traceroute

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Fri May 27 09:25:00 MDT 2011


karl horlen wrote:
> if i delete the default route which is normally going out my local interface vs vpn interface,
> before i can replace the default route with a new route to set the default route to go through
> the vpn (did you catch that ;), the vpn connection is killed as it probably tries to keep alive
> through the local network adapater. as a matter of fact, the more i think about this, doesn't the
> vpn need the default route set to the local adapter so it can perform it's tunneling correctly?

The VPN doesn't need a default route, but it needs a route.

So you could probably add a route for the VPN connection, then change the default route to go over 
the VPN interface.

Dave



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